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PULLMAN, ™s ARTESIAN CITY 



N THK heart of the famous I'alouse Country 
is located the City of Pullman, the railroad, 
commercial, educational and social center of 
the great Palouse Country. The government 
census of 1900 gave the city a population of 
1,308. The assessor's census of 1905 gives a 
population of 2,594. Owing to the confor- 
mation of the country, "all roads lead to Pullman," 

and there is marketed here every year upwards of half 

a million bushels of grain, as well as immense quanti- 
ties of fruits, vegetables and other products. This is 

also a live stock center and 

thousands of head of stock 

is shipped from here every 

year. 

The Northern Pacific and 

the Oregon Railroad & 

Navigation Co. railroads 

run through the city and a 

branch of the former road 

ruus from here to Genesee, 

Idaho, through one of the 

most fertile valleys on earth, 

making Pullman a junction 

of great importance. The 

Spokane & Inland electric 

road, which is now in 

course of construction, will 

in a short time reach this 

place, giving this point 

transportation facilities sec- 
ond to none in the Palouse 

country. 

The Northern Pacific has 

also purchased right of way 

for a "cut-off" running 

from Pullman to connect 

with the main line near 

Pasco, which will serve to 

greatly shorten the distance 

by rail to coast points, and 

which will cause the grain 

of the Palouse and Nez 

Perce countries to find tide 

water market via. Pullman. 




One of Pullman's Fourteen Artesian Wells. 



Pullman is a substantially built city with handsome 
business blocks of brick, macadamized streets and well- 
kept sidewalks. Different lines of business are well 
represented, but the rapid increase in population nat- 
urally presents profitable openings to the trained bus- 
iness man. 

The public schools are a source of great pride to 
the residents of the community and rank with the best 
in the state. Over 800 pupils are in daily attendance 
and the teaching force consists of a superintendent, 
principal and a corps of sixteen teachers. Owing to 
the crowded state of the 
present buildings it has be- 
come necessary to provide 
more room and consequent- 
ly two new four room brick 
buildings will be erected 
during the coming summer. 
In climate and soil, and 
conformation of country, 
Nature was kind to Pull- 
man, but one of her richest 
gifts, and one responsible 
in a great measure for the 
proverbial healthfulness of 
the place, was artesian 
water. From 80 to 1 20 feet 
below the surface is a basin 
of ihe purest of cold artes- 
ian water, that gushes forth 
wherever tapped, and four- 
teen wells are already flow- 
ing within the city, some of 
which have been flowing 
for fifteen years and show 
no decrease in volume. 
The water is strongly min- 
eralized and has pronounced 
health-giving properties. 

In home and social life 
Pullman is a place of con- 
siderable attractions. The 
social atmosphere is ex- 
tremely pleasant, the peo- 
ple being genial-hearted and 



friendly. It is a town ot comfortable and attractive 
homes; hospitality is one of its virtues, and social 
gatherings are among its leading enjoyments. It is the 
universal verdict of its visitors that there are few com- 
munities where the people respond more readily to the 
social instincts, or where newcomers can so soon find 
congenial friendships. Owing to the presence of the 
State College Pullman entertains large gatherings an- 
nually. The wheat growers, the farmers, the stock 
breeders, all hold large conventions; the high schools 
throughout the state meet for interscholastic, oratorical 
and athletic contests; and lovers of music come for the 
annual May Musical Festival. 

There are attractive social organizations of a high 
order, such as the Fortnightly and the Historical 
clubs, as well as lodges of most of the great fraternal 
societies. 

A study of the population of Whitman county, as 
shown by the official census lor 1905, speaks elo- 
quently of the prosperity of Pullman and the Palouse 
country: 

TOWN. 1900 1905 

Colton 251 325 

Colfax 2121 2875 

Elberton 297 414 

Endicott (not given) 346 

Farmington 434 484 

•Id 697 923 

osse (not given 170 

Oake.sdale 928 1017 

Palouse 929 1800 

PULLMAN 1308 2594 

Rosalia 379 535 

In) (not given) 578 

< 717 1301 

Thornton (not given) 147 

(Jniontown 404 397 

Winona (not given) 91 

Whitman Comity 3'373 

idilv ■< ' 11 if m the census exhibit and the 



increase in the population of nearly 100 per cent., that 
these annual pilgrimages of the thrifty, enterprising, 
progressive people of the state have proven the at- 
tractiveness of Pullman as a home city. The most 
conservative prophet of the future fortells a population 
in future years of ten thousand people. And there is 
every reason to accept such a prophecy: The continual 
growth of the Palouse country, the phenominal growth 
of the College enrollment, which already has passed 
the one thousand mark, the demand for new industries 
in the newly developed country, these all substantiate 
the claim for a large increase in population. 

Pullman has eight churches. They are the Bap- 
tist, Christian, Congregational, Protestant Episcopal, 
Methodist Episcopal, United Presbyterian, Catholic and 
Christian Science. The city, it will be seen, is well 
supplied with churches, and they are aggressive and 
helpful institutions. The Sunday schools are well or- 
ganized and zealous in their care of the children. 
There are flourishing societies for the young people. 
In fact, every religious institution which one is accus- 
tomed to meet with elsewhere is to be found here, 
working in the cause of social and moral betterment. 
Pullman is a pleasant place in which to live; and it 
is also a safe place. With its social and educational 
and religious advantages, it would be difficult to find 
a more attractive place for settlement in the West than 
is offered here. 

If 3'ou have any idea of changing location, we ex- 
tend to you a cordial invitation to come to Pullman, 
and we are sure you can locate satisfactorily. It's a 
civilized, law-abiding, bright, intelligent community 
you would come into, not a part of the "wild and 
woolly west" where Siwashes and tepees abound, or 
where the cowboy with his big sombrero, wheelbarrow 
spurs and six-shooter deals out death and devastation. 
We have railroads, automobiles, balloon ascensions; 
everything to eat and wear that one could wish for; 
circuses, horseraces, etc., etc., and we always celebrate 
the 4th of July, not only in commemoration of the in- 
dependence of the United States, but also in jubilation 
over having got hold of the choicest hunk of Mother 
Earth's surface. 




bine Harvester at Work in Grain near Pullman 



SOME PULLMAN RESIDKNCKK 




Some Facts and Figures. 

Prices of land range from $30 to $50 per acre, de- 
pending upon location, nearness to railroad and school, 
and class and condition of improvements. Land is 
practically all cultivated. Good, average land within 
six to eight miles of market, fenced and under culti- 
vation, and with no building, brings from $40 to $50 
per acre. Price of land is steadily advancing. Nearer 
the market prices are higher than farther away — a good 
quarter within two to forr miles of station, all in culti- 
vation and fair improvements, brings $50 per acre. 
All plows are right hand. All vehicles wide track. 
All grain is stored in sacks. Wheat and barley are 
sown in both fall and spring— fall sowing preferable. 
Common lumber is worth $13 per thousand. Shingles 
$2.25 per thousand for best ceder. Good horses are 
worth $400 per team. Cows from $25 to $50. Three 
and a quarter inch farm wagons, complete with bed 
and break, $95. Self binder, $150; gang plow, $50 to 
$60; team harness, $35 to $45. 

Prices of various products at Pullman, Washington, 
July 1, 1906 : 

Wheat, sacked in warehouse, 52c per bushel. 

Oats, sacked, in warehouse, $1.15 per cwt. 

Barley, sacked, in warehouse, 90c per cwt. 

Potatoes, 65c per cwt. 

Onions, $1.00 per cwt. 

Cabbage, per lb., 2c. 

Apples, per bushel box, 80c. 

Kggs, per doz., 20c. 

Butter, ranch, per lb., 25c. 

Creamery butter, per lb., 35c. 

Hogs on foot, per lb., 5/4 c, dressed, 6^c. 

Dressed beef by carcass, 7c, mutton, 7}4c. 

Hams, 13c, shoulders, 10c, sides, i3^c. 

Lard, 13c. 

Turkeys, 14c, geese, 10c, ducks, 9c. 

Chickens, 7c live weight. 

Wheat hay, per ton, $7.00. 

Mixed hay (wheat and oats) per ton, $6.00. 

Timothy, per ton, $12.00. 
Here are some of the prices you have to pay : 

Boss of the Road overalls, 75c. 

Duck Jumpers, 50c to 75c. 

Good everyday shirt, 50c to 75c. 

Gloves for ordinary use, 75c to $1.00. 

Lonsdale muslin, best, 10c per yard. 

Standard prints, 6c per yard. 



Amoskeag Gingham, good, 8c to iOc. 
Good grade crash, 14c. 
Unbleached muslin, good, 8c to 10c. 
Granulated sugar, per cwt., $6.25. 
Arbuckles coffee, per lb. pkg., 15c. 
Good tea, per lb. pkg., 50c. 
Good flour, per bbl., $4.20. 
Standard grade soaps, 5c bar. 
Standard brand tobaccos, 50c per lb. 
From above you can get a good general idea of 
prices, as other things are in proportion. 



Facts About the Palouse Country. 

Tornadoes, cyclones and heavy thunder storms are 
unknown. 

Fleas and mosquitoes have not yet found the Pa- 
louse country. 

It is difficult to find a quarter section that does not 
have on it one or more find springs. 

No irrigation required. All grains, Iruits and veg- 
tables grow to perfection without it, 

Palouse fruit is noted for its flavor, being much 
better in this respect than fruit from Oregon or Cali- 
fornia. 

Both winter and spring wheat are grown, and har- 
vest commences about July 15th, continuing till Octo- 
ber 1 st. 

The sugar beet grown in Palouse soil has 110 super- 
ior, and finds ready market at a good price at the Wa- 
verly factory. 

Such apples grow no where else in the world. They 
are free from worms, and llavor and keeping qualities 
are the best. 

Wood^is'generally used for fuel, the timbered 
mountains a few miles to the east furnishing an abund- 
ant and cheap supply. 

Palouse farms are well watered, there being num- 
erous living springs, and artesian water being found at 
a depth of from 80 to 1 20 feet. 



* PULLMAN'S CHURCHES •* 




J. Methodist. 2. Congregational. 3. Christian. 4. Presbyterian. 5. Baptist. 6. Catholic. 7. Episcopal. 



^ THE STATE COLLEGE ■* 



On the hill just East of the city stands the institu- 
tion which is the pride and glory of the community 
and of the state. This is the State College of Wash- 
ington, lately known as the Agricultural College, Ex- 
periment Station and School of Science of the State of 
Washington. It is an institution of which any city 
and any state might well be proud. Already in its 
brief career of thirteen years it has grown to splendid 
proportions, now numbering about 800 students, and 
having in its faculty and teachiug force between 60 
and 70 members. Twelve large buildings and some 
smaller ones furnish a plant in which the highest grade 
of scientific, technical and literary education is given. 
Many institutions half a century old have not half the 
equipment which this young institution enjoys. The 
lines of work undertaken cover a broad field, includ- 
ing four engineering courses, namely, Civil, Mining, 
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering; five scientific 
departments, namely, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, 
Agribulture and Geology; three literary departments, 
namely, Economic Science and History, English Lan- 
guage and Literary, and the Modern Languages; a de- 
partment of Domestic Economy, and a number of 
schools for special training, including the School of 
Pharmacy and School of Veterinary Science. Each of 
these departments is well equipped with faculty and 
with material equipment in the way of machinery, ap- 
paratus, supplies, etc. The Chemistry Department has 
its own separate building, so has the Mechanical and 
Electrical Engineering Department and likewise the 
Mining Department. The men in charge of these sev- 
eral departments are specialists, and the opportunities 
far young men desiring to gain an education and to fit 
themselves for special lines of work are of the best. 
The institution receives its support from the United 
States, from the State and from its permanent endow- 
ment. It receives from the United States Government 
the Morrill Eund of $25,000 a year, for the Experiment 
Station the Hatch Fund of $15,000 a year, forits Main- 
tenance Fund from the State about $80,000 a year. 
From other sources about $10,000 a year are received, 
making a total annual maintenance at the present time 
of about $130,000 a year. It has a permanent endow- 
ment in the shape of a land grant of 190,000 acres 



of land, which can be sold at not less than $10 per 
acre. More than one half of this land grant is in the 
valuable timber belt of the state and it has been con- 
servatively estimated that this will yield to the institu- 
tion in the course of time, if properly and honestly ad- 
ministered, from three to four millian dollars. It will 
thus be seen that not only in the reliance upon state 
taxation, but also upon permanent endowment, the 
promise of the institution for future growth and devel- 
opment is very great. 

Though devoted chiefly to scientific and technical 
lines, yet there are offered the broadest opportunities 
for literary and cultural education, including very ex- 
cellent opportunities for musical training. There was 
erected this summer a musical conservatory under the 
auspices of the college, which will enable students hav- 
ing a musical taste to develop it along with their liter- 
ary and scientific education. In the several depart- 
ments of the college the faculty is made up of highly 
trained specialists, representing the leading institutions 
of the United States, including Harvard, Columbia, 
Johns Hopkius, Cornell, Indiana, Chicago, Nebraska, 
Stanford, Michigan and others. 

The first class was graduated from the institution 
in the year 1897, an d a class has been graduated each 
year from that date until this. There has, therefore, 
been some time to test the thoroughness and soundness 
of the training given in the ccllege. It is safe to say 
tiat no other institution of similar age has been able to 
make a better showing in this respect than the State 
College. The graduates of the institution have been 
able to command and to hold good positions and have 
been paid good salaries for the work done. They have 
been able to compete successfully with the graduates 
of the best known scientific and technical schools of the 
country. 

The system of organization is what Is sometimes 
described as the "Cornell system." The college stu- 
dent selects a Department of study in which he gives 
large attention to a single line of study, adding to this 
such supplementary studies as may be deemed advis- 
able. In this way a good mastery is gained of some 
special line of work. The system has proven very sat- 
isfactory indeed. 



The State Experiment Station conducts continu- 
ously investigations in agricultural aud horticultural 
subjects and in the combating of the diseases and pests 
with which the farmer and fruit grower may have to 
deal. Very important contributions have been made 
made to the agricultural development of the state by 
the Experiment Station in the establishment of the 
sugar beet industry in the state, in the dissemination 
of suitable grasses and forage plants, and in the com- 
bating of injurious insects and plant diseases through- 
out the state. The investigations are continually in 
progress and reports on the same are published in bul- 
letin form and distributed free to those who apply for 
the same. The college farm consists of about 200 
acres, and is devoted to the work of the Experiment 
Station. 

Seldom in a town the size of Pullman are there 
found such extensive lines of merchandise as are found 
here. One reason for the possibility of such prosper- 
ous stores is the presence of the thousand students and 
the families brought here by the College. But the 
character of the farming community also demand and 
make possible these enterprises. Every general line 
of retail business is supplied by one or more houses, 
dry-goods, groceries, hardware, crockery, clothing, 
jewelry, bakery, drugs, confectionery, boots and shoes, 
are well represented. Good hotels, liveries, laundries, 
plumbing establishments, agricultural implements, 
binks— it is difficult to think of a needful establish- 
ment not found here. 

And yet there are opportunities for new comers. 
The rapid increase in population has enabled new 
houses to become established during the past, and 
there will be no less rapid increase in the future. 

Capital can find profitable investment in factories — 
sugar beet factory, box factory, etc.— in the erection 
and sale of houses for the. families constantly moving 
to Pullman, and in many ways. 

Wages for carpenters and other workers in the 
building trades are good and work is continued 
throughout most of the year. 

There is a place and opportunity for many in this 
new aud rich country. 

The financial figures of the City of Pullman is 
good. The city is lighted by electricity. Recently 
the city sold $25,000 funding bonds at the low rate of 
five per cent interest aud received a premium. The 
main business streets are paved in a most substantial 



manner. The basaltic rock cropping out from the 
hillsides, affords paving material of the most valuable 
sort at a very small expense. Considering the short 
period which the town has been in existence and the 
substantial character of the city hall and the public 
high school, the debt of the city is remarkably small. 
Two beautiful parks add to the attractiveness and 
the assets of the city. 



Information concerning Pullman, its opportunities 
and resources, the Palouse country and any other sub- 
ject of interest to prospective settlers, will be gladly 
and promptly furnished upon request. 
Address all communications to the 

Pull- for- Pullman Club, 

I,. W. Lanning, Sec'y- 




A Product of the Palouse, 



THE, FAMOUS PALOUSE COUNTRY 



The State of Washington is divided into three re- 
gions having distinctive climatic conditions. The por- 
tion west of the Cascade Mountains has a rainfall of 
from 40 to 60 inches and is mostly covered with ever- 
green forests. East of the Cascades and in the central 
part of the State the rainfall is light and, except upon 
the higher lands, irrigation is needed for the success- 
ful growth of crops. Along the eastern borders of the 
State is a large area of high rolling prairie laud where 
the soil is rich and the rainfall sufficient to produce 
abundant crops every year without irrigation. 

The Palouse Country, roughly speaking, lies south 
and east of the Northern Pacific Ry. and north of 
Snake River, being mostly in Whitman County. A 
glance at the accompanying rainfall map prepared by 
government officials shows that the annual rainfall in 
this region averages 22.4 inches. This rainfall is so 
distributed through the seasons that in the thirty-five 
years during which farming has been carried on here 
there has never been a failure of crops. 

The soil is volconic ash and is a rich dark brown 
loam, neither sandy nor sticky, ij^ to 6 feet in depth, 
under laid with a clay subsoil of great depth, often as 
much as 50 and even 100 feet. Below this is solid ba- 
saltic rock. There is no sand, gravel or rock to be 
found except along the larger water courses. The 
contour of the country can best be described as re- 
sembling the ocean when moving in a long, gentle 
swell. The hills are not broken, but the slopes are 
long and well rounded, the north hillsides being some- 
times rather steep. There is no waste land, practically 
all being susceptible to cultivation. The hill tops are 
as rich as valleys. This combination of surface and 
sub-soil absorbs woter more rapidly, and retains more 
of it than any other soil known, with the exception of 
peat. 

The rains, which practically all fall between Sep- 
tember and June, are never torrential in character like 
those of the Eastern states, and the water is absorbed 
by the soil as it falls. The rains penetrate the soil to 
a depth varying from eight to fifteen feet in the vicinity 
of Pullman, except in the draws, where it goes much 
deeper. It remains in the soil till removed by plant 
roots the next spring and summer. Occasionally a 
field of erain has been sown after the sprine rains 



were over, and a fair crop grown with no other mois- 
ture than that stored up in the soil at the time the seed 
was planted. There is certainly no extensive area of 
land in the world that will hold water more tenacious- 
ly, or in larger quantity, than the basaltic soils of this 
region. The abundant crops grown here with no rain 
after the first of July render this fact evident. 

Good crops are grown in this character of soil in 
parts of the state where rainfall is only 10 inches when 
a fair share falls in May and June. Where the rainfall 
is 20 inches or more the crops are large and there has 
never been a failure. 

There are no tornadoes or other destructive storms 
west of the Rocky Mountains. Electric storms are 
rare and not severe. Lightning rods and lightning 
rod agents are unknown here. There are no hail 
storms or hot winds, Hessian fly, chintz bugs, or wire 
worms, hog cholera or foot rot. 

The elevation of Pullman above sea level is 2340 
feet. The climate compares favorably with that of the 
most favored parts of the United States. There are 
none of the extremes of heat and cold found east of the 
Rocky Mountains. The air is dry and bracing, and 
while there are generally a few hot days in summer a 
case of sunstroke or "heat prostration" has never been 
known in the Palouse Country, and the lemainder of 
the summer is ideal. The nights are always cool and 
a blanket or two necessary for comfortable sleep. No 
climate in the world has more beautiful weather than 
this from early summer till late fall. 

The winters are mild and the occasional cold spells 
broken after a few days by the warm Chinook winds 
blowing from the Pacific Ocean. The lowest tempera- 
ture recorded here in ten years was 19 below zero, and 
there are generally a few days of zero weather during 
the winter. Sleighing can not be depended upon as 
snow seldom lays more than a week or two at a time. 

Wheat is the staple crop of the country, and the 
wonderful fertility of the soil is demonstrated by the 
fact that after a quarter of a century of steady cropping 
there is, with proper tillage, no diminution in the yield. 
The average yield for both fall and spring wheat is 
about 30 bushels per acre. The farmer is disappointed 
and talks of "poor crops" when he gets less than 40 
bushels to the acre on summer fallowed laud sown in 



the fall. Fifty bushel crops are not uncommon, and 
there are well authenticated cases of 60 and 65 bushel 
crops. 

A three hundred and twenty acre field adjoining 
Pullman yielded 66 bushels per acre a few years ago. 
Manure or other fertilizers are never used in growing 
grain. Whitman County alone exports from ten to 
twelve million bushels of wheat yearly. 

Oats and barley are also extensively grown, the 
lormer yielding from 60 to 100 bushels and the latter 
40 to 60 bushels per acre. A surplus of something 
like two million bushels of these grains is exported 
from Whitman County annually. Realizing the mis- 
take of depending on one crop, the fluctuating price of 
which makes the farmers' income uncertain, a great 
many of the farmers of this vicinity are putting down 
part of their land to grass and are going in for stock of 
various kinds. The climatic and other conditions are 
very favorable to stock raising, producing healthy and 
vigorous animals. None of the common and dangerous 



diseases of horses, cattle or swine have obtained a foot- 
hold here. 

Dairying is quite extensively engaged in, nearly 
every village having a creamery or a receiving station. 
Pullman has two creameries. With the exception ol 
timothy, little tame grass has been grown until late 
years, wheat or oat hay being chiefly depended on for 
home consumption. On the low land all but the drier 
south slopes timothy and clover grow well, yielding 
two to three tons to the acre. Alfalfa does well every- 
where and is the coming hay and toragecrop. On the 
drier lands brorne grass, orchard grass and tall meadow 
oat grass make both excellent pasture and hay. Ken- 
tucky blue grass, white clover, meadow fescue and 
Italian rye grass are also perfectly at home here. As 
might be expected from the richness and friable texture 
of the soil, all kinds of root crops do extremely well. 
Potatoes yieid heavily and are of the finest quality. 
The same may be said of carrots, sugar beets, mangel 
wurzels, ruta bagas, etc. 





Experiment Station Farm, Pullman, Wash. 




Heading Operations on Farm Near Pullman. 



This seems to be the natural home of the small 
fruit, strawberries, raspberries, currants, blackberries 
and the like thrive amazingly with the minimum of 
care. Of the larger fruits all except the more tender, 
such as peaches and apricots, grow in great abundance. 
Pears, cherries, plums and apples do as well as any- 
where in the United States, and as regards winter ap- 
ples we challenge the world to equal our fruit in com- 
bination of flavor and keeping qualities. Our market 
for this fruit extends from Kugland to China. A group 
of eastern visitors were astonished to the point of in- 
credulity when shown some yellow Newtown pippins 
last June as fresh and crisp as when picked, and were 
told that they had been kept, not in cold storage, but 
simply in a farmer's "dugout" cellar. The finest va- 
rieties grown here keep as well as the famous Ben 
Davis elsewhere. 

The eastern farmer's first question is, "Can you 
grow corn?" While this is not strictly speaking a 
corn country such as the middle west, corn is success- 
fully and profitably grown. The nights are so cool 
that corn does not grow as rapidly as in the Mississippi 
Valley, and seed corn from that region will often not 
mature. Now that home grown seed can be obtained 
from corn that has been selected and acclimated for 
years it can be matured every year. A five acre patch 



adjoining the State College farm produced 20o"bushels 
of shelled command 70 tons'of fodder. The College has 
been raising corn for twelve years for ensilage and re- 
ports 10 tons per acre as the lightest yield. This dem- 
onstrates that more cow feed can be raised with this 
than from any other crop. It is especially coming in 
favor as a crop to be raised on land being "rested" for 
wheat, which would otherwise be summer fallowed and 
produce nothing. 

Joseph E. Wing, a practical agriculturist, stock 
man, writer and correspondent of the Breeders' Ga- 
zette, well known throughout the agricultural world, 
recently wrote, after an extensive trip throughout the 
United States, "In all the long journey I have made, 
I have never seen anything that seems to me to have 
the natural advantages for human life and occupation 
that the Palouse country has. It seems to me that 
there is the best place to build a stock farm that I have 
seen on this trip. I never saw land too good for good 
stock. Happy is the man born in these fertile hills, 
if he is alive to his glorious opportunities. 

"And the climate ! The morning and evening air 
is like wine. At mid-day it is only comfortably warm 
to me. It is a land where you will ride in comfort 
with a light topcoat on in midsummer. If you happen 
not to have one you will get along just as well. At 



hight ybii creep betweeti two blankets, and your 
troubles find you not until morning." 

Tbere is no question that we have here a magnifi- 
cent live Stock and dairy country, unexcelled any- 
where. Mr. Wing said of it: "In all the long journeys 
I have made, I have never seen anything that seemed 
to me to have the natural advantages for human life 
and occupation than this Palouse Country has. The 
only uncultivated land is along the lower slopes where 
the rocks may outcrop. The soil is dark brown. It 
is rich. It is immensely rich. It seems hardly affect- 
ed by the twenty years of cropping, as yet, and thecrop 
is wheat. It seems to me that here is the best place to 
build a stock farm that I have seen on this trip." (Mr. 
Wing, when he was at Pullman, had just passed 
through California and Oregon.) 

Dr. E. N. Hutchinson, inspector in charge of the 



work of the Bureau of Animal industry at Portland, 
Oregon, says that the section between the Cascades and 
Rockies produces the healthiest mutton in the world, 
the sheep being freer from parasitic diseases than any- 
where else in the country; and he ought to know, for 
he inspects the carcass of every animal slaughtered in 
Portland. 

Prof. Mark W. Harrington, for many years at the 
head of the Weather Bureau of the Agricultural De- 
partment, at Washington, D. C, recently wrote, 
"While there we estimated what population the Pa- 
louse Country was able to maintain. Our conclusion 
was that one hundred times as many people could be 
supported by its soil as now live there. The area is a 
little less than that of Massachusetts and the population 
might be greater than that of Massachusetts and all be 
supported by the soil." 




Threshing Operations on Farm near Pullman. 




Two hundred thousand dollars worth of fruit is 
marketed annually within a radius of a few miles of 
Pullman. This being the nearest railroad point to the 
famous Snake river fruit district, where orchards 
ranging iu size from 10 to 250 acres produce the finest 
qualities of fruit grown in the Northwest, makes Pull- 
man the fruit center of this rich district. Fourteen 
miles south of here, at Wawawai ferry, is the big or- 
chard of Hon. W. L. La Follette, known as the "Fruit 
King" of Snake river. This orchard contains hun- 
dreds of peach, pear, plum, prune, apricot, cherry and 
apple trees, and produces fruit valued at a snug for- 
tune annually. From 75 to 100 carloads, worth an 
average of $ 1 ,000 per car, have been produced from 
this orchard in past seasons. The fruit Ends a tuarket 
in the great centers of the world, being shipped to St. 
Paul, Chicago, New York, Boston and London, Eng- 
land. Cherries from Mr. La Follette' s orchard 
brought 35 cents per pound, at wholesale, in New 
York last year. 1'ears from this orchard brought the 
highest price paid for that variety of fruit in New 
York on more than one occasion. Mr. La Follette 1ms 
his own nursery and grows his own trees liom the 
seed. He has a saw mill where he saws logs, ll >ated 
down Snake river, into lumber and makes boxes in 
which to ship the fr nit. Everything is done on an 
enormous scale which would be a revelation to those 
not accustomed to such large orchards and extensive 
shipments. 

While Mr. La Follette's is the largest orchard on 
the river, there are many others ranging from 25 to 
100 acres and fortunes are product d by these annually. 
Grapes grow to perfection in that locality and the 
Snake river threatens to rival Southern California as a 
producer of fine grapes. J. W. Offield has a vineyard 



of 15 acres of the choicest grapes which are equal to 
the finest produced in California and the yield has 
been enormous, although the vines are young. Mr. 
La Follette and nearly all other fruit growers on the 
river, also raises grapes and they are proving one of 
the most profitable crops grown. 

The Snake river is not the only fruit district in the 
Inland Empire or tributary to Pullman. The entire 
Palouse country is a fruit producing section and no 
other district in the United States produces finer ap- 
ples, prunes, plums and other hardy fruits. Hundreds 
of carloads of fine winter apples are shipped annually 
from the Palouse country to the markets of the world, 
where they bring the highest prices. 

Live stock is another item of importance in this 
section and hundreds of carloads of hogs, cattle, sheep 
and horses go forth annually to the markets of the 
west, all these being produced on the farms near Pull- 
man. Whitman county, of which Pullman is the 
second largest town, produces annually from $5,000,- 
000 to $8,000,000 worth of wheat, and enough fruit, 
hay, live stock and other farm products to make the 
grand total value of the products of the county from 
$8,000, ood to $10,000,000 annually. Pullman is grow- 
ing faster than any town in the county and within a 
year will be the largest town within its borders. The 
school census shows an increase of 18 per cent, during 
the year just closed, which is about the increase of 
the population of the town. 




A drive through the country reveals the tact of the 
remarkable prosperity of the farming community. 
From the summit of some hill one can see in every di- 
rection sleek herds of fine cattle, oftentimes of blooded 
stock. In the fields here and there may be seen the 
farmers driving their teams of fine horses plowing the 
rich, loose soil. Along the roads overhead are wires 
ol rural telephones which connect the farmers homes 
together, giving endless enjoyment to the families for 
visiting, and offering opportunity for the transaction 
of much business at a great saving of time. These 
farmers' telephones are very inexpensive, costing the 
subscribers only fifty cents per month. 

On any Saturday or holiday, scores and some- 
times hundreds ol handsome carriages, owned by the 
farmers about Pullman, may be seen on the roads or 
about the stables of the city. 

During the harvest season the air resounds with 
the music of the combined harvesters and the thresh- 
ing machines. From an elevated point a few miles 
north of Pullman, known as Steptoe Butte,, one 



day twenty threshing machines were seen at work, 
One farmer near Pullman contracted early in the 
season for 15,000 sacks and later had to order 5,000 
more to provide for his wheat. 

The settlement of the country is of such recent 
date that many of the farm houses are small. But 
usually about the house will be a pleasant grove of 
shade and fruit trees, with a bright spot of flowers and 
a well kept garden. In most of these cozy homes are 
the comforts and luxuries of the city. As a rule the 
sons and daughters of the farmers of the Palouse 
country spend their winters in the State College at 
Pullman, and many of them are numbered among the 
College allumni. 

Prosperity, optimism, progress are evident every- 
where. And why not? There has never been a crop 
failure in the history of the country, and the soil and 
climate seem to forbid the possibility of failure. The 
eastern farmer visiting this country during harvest be- 
comes enthusiastic at once for the country of the Pa- 
louse. Hence the country is filling up rapidly with 
the ambitious, wide-awake, intelligent Americans of 
the eastern and middle western states. 




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